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Wednesday, July 06, 2016

Another Sudden Flash of Stupid on My Part

So my Sweetie says there are 2 cowboy matches this coming weekend, including one of my favorites. I am all excied! Let's go to a match, I say...I'll be very slow, but it'll be fun!

Sure, she says...she just needs to see me run a lever action rifle with my left hand in a cast. And the shotgun. And my left-holstered pistol. So, mind over matter, I say. I open the safe, take out one of my lever guns, shoulder it and...and...and...I can shoulder the gun and shoot OR I can work the lever. Hmmmmm...I pull out the double-barrel, which I can easily shoot, but can't reload. Forget the left-holstered pistol.

I can shoot a USPSA match, I say optimistically. "As long as you shoot Open," she says, "And don't have to reload."

Maybe I'll pull weeds this weekend...or pull the lever on a Dillon. I can do that.

When I came home from the hospital after my heart attack, it was a week before someone brought my car home. It was a week after that before I had the energy to walk to the car and retrieve the pistol. Sometimes we have to depend on others.

Sadly we have a terrible Mass Casualty Event in Dallas tonite. 11 cops wounded and 4 dead. Who knows at this point what the motivations are. Regardless, everyone needs to be on a swivel. Stay safe. Looking forward to your insight MB....